Financial structure and economic development
Subtitle: firm, industry, and country evidence
By: Thorsten Beck ... [et al].
Contributors: Beck, Thorsten.; World Bank. Development Research Group. Finance.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2423; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2423.
Publisher: World Bank, Development Research Group, Finance
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Finance.; Finance -- Law and legislation.; Finance -- Statistics.; Economic development.
Genres: Statistics.
Description: A country's level of financial development and the legal environment in which financial intermediaries and markets operate critically influence economic development. In countries whose financial sectors are more fully developed and whose legal systems protect the rights of outside investors, economies grow faster, industries dependent on external finance expand more quickly, new firms are created more easily, firms have more access to external financing, and firms grow faster.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-43).
Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 15, 2002.
"August 2000"--Cover.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.